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...Yann Giraud Previous contributions to the history of economics have tried to assess Paul Samuelson’s political positioning by tracing it in the subsequent editions of his famous textbook Economics . By contrast, this article depicts the making of Economics itself as a political process. It argues...

... . 1990 . Mismanaging America: The Rise of the Anti-Analytic Presidency . Lawrence : University Press of Kansas . From Economic to Social Regulation: How the Deregulatory Moment Strengthened Economists’ Policy Position Elizabeth Popp Berman Michael Bernstein (2001), in his well-known...

... Locke: Economist and Social Scientist. Chicago: Chicago University Press. John Locke and the Social Position of Women Chris Nyland In the history of economic thought, John Locke is recognized as a ma- jor contributor to the establishment of the philosophical foundations upon...

... CCC 0018-2702/84/$1.50 John Millar, the four-stages theory, and women’s position in society Paul Bowles I The four-stages theory, that is, the idea of society progressing through four stages based successively on the hunting, pastoral, agricultural...

... of the classical position Carl W. Hale, Florida State University Introduction : The Classical Model It is the purpose of this article to deal with two aspects of the classical growth argument: the wages fund of classical economics as a variable, and the locational...

...Samuel Hollander Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The Development of Ricardo’s Position on Machinery Samu.el Hollander ‘THEWIC& *changesregarding Ithe effects of machinery on working- class interests...

...Daniel M. Hausman The Methodology of Positive Economics: Reflections on the Milton Friedman Legacy . Edited by Mäki Uskali . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 . xviii ; 363 pp. Cloth $130.00 ; paper $48.00 . Book Reviews The Cost of Living in America...

... & Sons. Towse , Ruth . 1997 . Baumol's Cost Disease: The Arts and Other Victims . Aldershot: Edward Elgar. Positive Science, Normative Man: Lionel Robbins and the Political Economy of Art Márcia Balisciano and Steven G. Medema When scholars look at the world around them, they do so...

... run) in that they are fully reproducible. Therefore, positionality may be exhausted in this good as others obtain the same good. The first to own the unusual sports car has purchased a good with a positional component, but the last to purchase the car has simply “kept up with the Joneses...

...Michael David Bordo Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 [HOPE Vol. 7 (1975) No. 31 John E. Cairnes on the effects of the Australian gold discoveries, 185 1-73: an early application of the methodology of positive economics...

... . Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Halbwachs , M. Papers. Institut de la Mémoire de l'Edition Contemporaine, Paris. Halbwachs , M. [ 1905 ] 1972. Remarques sur la position sociologique du problème des classes. In Classes sociales et morphologie , edited by Victor Karady. Paris...

...David Andrews The positive/normative distinction, in its modern form, was introduced into economics by Lionel Robbins. Robbins's discussion of the distinction was provoked in part by Ralph Hawtrey's prior claim that economics cannot be dissociated from ethics. Robbins's argument has been quite...

...Terry Peach This article questions Adam Smith’s commitment to the notion of a beneficent Deity, or “all-perfect Being,” whose purpose is to promote the “real happiness” of humankind. It is argued that Smith conceals his true position in The Theory of Moral Sentiments by emphasizing the deceptive...

... is promoted by free trade, which epitomizes the positive role of conflict and maintains each social system open, while at the same time remaining positively embedded in local ways of life, tacit traditions anchored to historical and territorial specificity. In this perspective Cattaneo analyzes economic...

..., however, proved difficult to be addressed with the then available economic tools and this, in turn, led to their being simply shelved. We conclude by noting that the participants in this debate cast the problem of social interrelations in consumption almost exclusively in terms of positional rivalry...

...Marcel Boumans This article provides a history of the treatment of observational errors where conditions cannot be controlled to reduce inaccuracies, more specific, a history of the discussion of errors in social statistics. The main focus is on Oskar Morgenstern’s atypical position...

... article investigates Eucken's stance on the principle of value freedom, that is, the claim that positive and normative statements should be kept separate. While Eucken defended the notion of scientific objectivity in his earlier writings, he later distanced himself from the principle of value freedom...

...Matthew Smith This article examines Thomas Tooke's (1773–1858) position on the English Corn Laws from 1815 until their repeal in 1846. It shows that like most classical economists, Tooke was a strong supporter of free trade who vehemently opposed the Corn Laws, believing that they generally...

...) presents an innovative and consistent anti-Bullionist position. His views differ from those of the Bank of England and other anti-Bullionists; unlike them, he rejected the Real Bills Doctrine and Smith's monetary thinking in general as it applied to both convertible and inconvertible monetary arrangements...

... liberal political values. Most of this literature has been ahistorical and hostile to utilitarianism. This essay aims at repositioning the luck debates in the context of John Stuart Mill's oft maligned essay, Utilitarianism . There, Mill posits that the historical progress of justice works against all...